The use of imaging technology in the assessment of the fetal inflammatory response syndrome-imaging of the fetal thymus

Prenatal Diagnosis

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 413-419

  Sciaky Tamir, Yael ^a   Hershkovitz, Reli ^a   Mazor, Moshe ^a   Shelef, Ilan ^a   Erez, Offer ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRTH; FETAL INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE SYNDROME; FETUS; FETUS DISEASE; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMMUNE SYSTEM; ORGAN SIZE; PREMATURE LABOR; PREMATURITY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SYNDROME; THYMUS; CHORIOAMNIONITIS; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; IMMUNOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PREMATURE FETUS MEMBRANE RUPTURE; SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE SYNDROME;

CHORIOAMNIONITIS; FEMALE; FETAL DISEASES; FETAL MEMBRANES, PREMATURE RUPTURE; FETUS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OBSTETRIC LABOR, PREMATURE; PREGNANCY; PREMATURE BIRTH; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE SYNDROME; THYMUS GLAND; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 84928431062     PISSN: 01973851     EISSN: 10970223     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pd.4560     Document Type: Review

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